CHANGES.md

Synapse 0.99.2rc1 (2019-02-27)
==============================

Features
--------

- Added an HAProxy example in the reverse proxy documentation. Contributed by Benoît S. (“Benpro”). ([\#4541](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4541))
- Add basic optional sentry integration. ([\#4632](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4632), [\#4694](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4694))
- Transfer bans on room upgrade. ([\#4642](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4642))
- Add configurable room list publishing rules. ([\#4647](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4647))
- Support .well-known delegation when issuing certificates through ACME. ([\#4652](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4652))
- Allow registration and login to be handled by a worker instance. ([\#4666](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4666), [\#4670](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4670), [\#4682](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4682))
- Reduce the overhead of creating outbound federation connections over TLS by caching the TLS client options. ([\#4674](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4674))
- Add prometheus metrics for number of outgoing EDUs, by type. ([\#4695](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4695))
- Return correct error code when inviting a remote user to a room whose homeserver does not support the room version. ([\#4721](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4721))
- Prevent showing rooms to other servers that were set to not federate. ([\#4746](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4746))


Bugfixes
--------

- Fix possible exception when paginating. ([\#4263](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4263))
- The dependency checker now correctly reports a version mismatch for optional
  dependencies, instead of reporting the dependency missing. ([\#4450](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4450))
- Set CORS headers on .well-known requests. ([\#4651](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4651))
- Fix kicking guest users on guest access revocation in worker mode. ([\#4667](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4667))
- Fix an issue in the database migration script where the
  `e2e_room_keys.is_verified` column wasn't considered as
  a boolean. ([\#4680](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4680))
- Fix TaskStopped exceptions in logs when outbound requests time out. ([\#4690](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4690))
- Fix ACME config for python 2. ([\#4717](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4717))
- Fix paginating over federation persisting incorrect state. ([\#4718](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4718))


Internal Changes
----------------

- Run `black` to reformat user directory code. ([\#4635](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4635))
- Reduce number of exceptions we log. ([\#4643](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4643), [\#4668](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4668))
- Introduce upsert batching functionality in the database layer. ([\#4644](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4644))
- Fix various spelling mistakes. ([\#4657](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4657))
- Cleanup request exception logging. ([\#4669](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4669), [\#4737](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4737), [\#4738](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4738))
- Improve replication performance by reducing cache invalidation traffic. ([\#4671](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4671), [\#4715](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4715), [\#4748](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4748))
- Test against Postgres 9.5 as well as 9.4. ([\#4676](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4676))
- Run unit tests against python 3.7. ([\#4677](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4677))
- Attempt to clarify installation instructions/config. ([\#4681](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4681))
- Clean up gitignores. ([\#4688](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4688))
- Minor tweaks to acme docs. ([\#4689](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4689))
- Improve the logging in the pusher process. ([\#4691](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4691))
- Better checks on newsfragments. ([\#4698](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4698), [\#4750](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4750))
- Avoid some redundant work when processing read receipts. ([\#4706](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4706))
- Run `push_receipts_to_remotes` as background job. ([\#4707](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4707))
- Add prometheus metrics for number of badge update pushes. ([\#4709](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4709))
- Reduce pusher logging on startup ([\#4716](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4716))
- Don't log exceptions when failing to fetch remote server keys. ([\#4722](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4722))
- Correctly proxy exception in frontend_proxy worker. ([\#4723](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4723))
- Add database version to phonehome stats. ([\#4753](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4753))


Synapse 0.99.1.1 (2019-02-14)
=============================

Bugfixes
--------

- Fix "TypeError: '>' not supported" when starting without an existing certificate.
  Fix a bug where an existing certificate would be reprovisoned every day. ([\#4648](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4648))


Synapse 0.99.1 (2019-02-14)
===========================

Features
--------

- Include m.room.encryption on invites by default ([\#3902](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3902))
- Federation OpenID listener resource can now be activated even if federation is disabled ([\#4420](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4420))
- Synapse's ACME support will now correctly reprovision a certificate that approaches its expiry while Synapse is running. ([\#4522](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4522))
- Add ability to update backup versions ([\#4580](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4580))
- Allow the "unavailable" presence status for /sync.
  This change makes Synapse compliant with r0.4.0 of the Client-Server specification. ([\#4592](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4592))
- There is no longer any need to specify `no_tls`: it is inferred from the absence of TLS listeners ([\#4613](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4613), [\#4615](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4615), [\#4617](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4617), [\#4636](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4636))
- The default configuration no longer requires TLS certificates. ([\#4614](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4614))


Bugfixes
--------

- Copy over room federation ability on room upgrade. ([\#4530](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4530))
- Fix noisy "twisted.internet.task.TaskStopped" errors in logs ([\#4546](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4546))
- Synapse is now tolerant of the `tls_fingerprints` option being None or not specified. ([\#4589](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4589))
- Fix 'no unique or exclusion constraint' error ([\#4591](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4591))
- Transfer Server ACLs on room upgrade. ([\#4608](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4608))
- Fix failure to start when not TLS certificate was given even if TLS was disabled. ([\#4618](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4618))
- Fix self-signed cert notice from generate-config. ([\#4625](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4625))
- Fix performance of `user_ips` table deduplication background update ([\#4626](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4626), [\#4627](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4627))


Internal Changes
----------------

- Change the user directory state query to use a filtered call to the db instead of a generic one. ([\#4462](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4462))
- Reject federation transactions if they include more than 50 PDUs or 100 EDUs. ([\#4513](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4513))
- Reduce duplication of ``synapse.app`` code. ([\#4567](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4567))
- Fix docker upload job to push -py2 images. ([\#4576](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4576))
- Add port configuration information to ACME instructions. ([\#4578](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4578))
- Update MSC1711 FAQ to calrify .well-known usage ([\#4584](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4584))
- Clean up default listener configuration ([\#4586](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4586))
- Clarifications for reverse proxy docs ([\#4607](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4607))
- Move ClientTLSOptionsFactory init out of `refresh_certificates` ([\#4611](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4611))
- Fail cleanly if listener config lacks a 'port' ([\#4616](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4616))
- Remove redundant entries from docker config ([\#4619](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4619))
- README updates ([\#4621](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4621))


Synapse 0.99.0 (2019-02-05)
===========================

Synapse v0.99.x is a precursor to the upcoming Synapse v1.0 release. It contains foundational changes to room architecture and the federation security model necessary to support the upcoming r0 release of the Server to Server API.

Features
--------

- Synapse's cipher string has been updated to require ECDH key exchange. Configuring and generating dh_params is no longer required, and they will be ignored. ([\#4229](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4229))
- Synapse can now automatically provision TLS certificates via ACME (the protocol used by CAs like Let's Encrypt). ([\#4384](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4384), [\#4492](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4492), [\#4525](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4525), [\#4572](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4572), [\#4564](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4564), [\#4566](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4566), [\#4547](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4547), [\#4557](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4557))
- Implement MSC1708 (.well-known routing for server-server federation) ([\#4408](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4408), [\#4409](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4409), [\#4426](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4426), [\#4427](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4427), [\#4428](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4428), [\#4464](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4464), [\#4468](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4468), [\#4487](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4487), [\#4488](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4488), [\#4489](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4489), [\#4497](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4497), [\#4511](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4511), [\#4516](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4516), [\#4520](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4520), [\#4521](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4521), [\#4539](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4539), [\#4542](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4542), [\#4544](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4544))
- Search now includes results from predecessor rooms after a room upgrade. ([\#4415](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4415))
- Config option to disable requesting MSISDN on registration. ([\#4423](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4423))
- Add a metric for tracking event stream position of the user directory. ([\#4445](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4445))
- Support exposing server capabilities in CS API (MSC1753, MSC1804) ([\#4472](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4472), [81b7e7eed](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/commit/81b7e7eed323f55d6550e7a270a9dc2c4c7b0fe0)))
- Add support for room version 3 ([\#4483](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4483), [\#4499](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4499), [\#4515](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4515), [\#4523](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4523), [\#4535](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4535))
- Synapse will now reload TLS certificates from disk upon SIGHUP. ([\#4495](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4495), [\#4524](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4524))
- The matrixdotorg/synapse Docker images now use Python 3 by default. ([\#4558](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4558))

Bugfixes
--------

- Prevent users with access tokens predating the introduction of device IDs from creating spurious entries in the user_ips table. ([\#4369](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4369))
- Fix typo in ALL_USER_TYPES definition to ensure type is a tuple ([\#4392](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4392))
- Fix high CPU usage due to remote devicelist updates ([\#4397](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4397))
- Fix potential bug where creating or joining a room could fail ([\#4404](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4404))
- Fix bug when rejecting remote invites ([\#4405](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4405), [\#4527](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4527))
- Fix incorrect logcontexts after a Deferred was cancelled ([\#4407](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4407))
- Ensure encrypted room state is persisted across room upgrades. ([\#4411](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4411))
- Copy over whether a room is a direct message and any associated room tags on room upgrade. ([\#4412](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4412))
- Fix None guard in calling config.server.is_threepid_reserved ([\#4435](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4435))
- Don't send IP addresses as SNI ([\#4452](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4452))
- Fix UnboundLocalError in post_urlencoded_get_json ([\#4460](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4460))
- Add a timeout to filtered room directory queries. ([\#4461](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4461))
- Workaround for login error when using both LDAP and internal authentication. ([\#4486](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4486))
- Fix a bug where setting a relative consent directory path would cause a crash. ([\#4512](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4512))


Deprecations and Removals
-------------------------

- Synapse no longer generates self-signed TLS certificates when generating a configuration file. ([\#4509](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4509))


Improved Documentation
----------------------

- Update debian installation instructions ([\#4526](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4526))


Internal Changes
----------------

- Synapse will now take advantage of native UPSERT functionality in PostgreSQL 9.5+ and SQLite 3.24+. ([\#4306](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4306), [\#4459](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4459), [\#4466](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4466), [\#4471](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4471), [\#4477](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4477), [\#4505](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4505))
- Update README to use the new virtualenv everywhere ([\#4342](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4342))
- Add better logging for unexpected errors while sending transactions ([\#4368](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4368))
- Apply a unique index to the user_ips table, preventing duplicates. ([\#4370](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4370), [\#4432](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4432), [\#4434](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4434))
- Silence travis-ci build warnings by removing non-functional python3.6 ([\#4377](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4377))
- Fix a comment in the generated config file ([\#4387](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4387))
- Add ground work for implementing future federation API versions ([\#4390](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4390))
- Update dependencies on msgpack and pymacaroons to use the up-to-date packages. ([\#4399](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4399))
- Tweak codecov settings to make them less loud. ([\#4400](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4400))
- Implement server support for MSC1794 - Federation v2 Invite API ([\#4402](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4402))
- debian package: symlink to explicit python version ([\#4433](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4433))
- Add infrastructure to support different event formats ([\#4437](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4437), [\#4447](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4447), [\#4448](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4448), [\#4470](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4470), [\#4481](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4481), [\#4482](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4482), [\#4493](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4493), [\#4494](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4494), [\#4496](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4496), [\#4510](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4510), [\#4514](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4514))
- Generate the debian config during build ([\#4444](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4444))
- Clarify documentation for the `public_baseurl` config param ([\#4458](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4458), [\#4498](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4498))
- Fix quoting for allowed_local_3pids example config ([\#4476](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4476))
- Remove deprecated --process-dependency-links option from UPGRADE.rst ([\#4485](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4485))
- Make it possible to set the log level for tests via an environment variable ([\#4506](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4506))
- Reduce the log level of linearizer lock acquirement to DEBUG. ([\#4507](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4507))
- Fix code to comply with linting in PyFlakes 3.7.1. ([\#4519](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4519))
- Add some debug for membership syncing issues ([\#4538](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4538))
- Docker: only copy what we need to the build image ([\#4562](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4562))


Synapse 0.34.1.1 (2019-01-11)
=============================

This release fixes CVE-2019-5885 and is recommended for all users of Synapse 0.34.1.

This release is compatible with Python 2.7 and 3.5+. Python 3.7 is fully supported.

Bugfixes
--------

- Fix spontaneous logout on upgrade
  ([\#4374](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4374))


Synapse 0.34.1 (2019-01-09)
===========================

Internal Changes
----------------

- Add better logging for unexpected errors while sending transactions ([\#4361](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4361), [\#4362](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4362))


Synapse 0.34.1rc1 (2019-01-08)
==============================

Features
--------

- Special-case a support user for use in verifying behaviour of a given server. The support user does not appear in user directory or monthly active user counts. ([\#4141](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4141), [\#4344](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4344))
- Support for serving .well-known files ([\#4262](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4262))
- Rework SAML2 authentication ([\#4265](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4265), [\#4267](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4267))
- SAML2 authentication: Initialise user display name from SAML2 data ([\#4272](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4272))
- Synapse can now have its conditional/extra dependencies installed by pip. This functionality can be used by using `pip install matrix-synapse[feature]`, where feature is a comma separated list with the possible values `email.enable_notifs`, `matrix-synapse-ldap3`, `postgres`, `resources.consent`, `saml2`, `url_preview`, and `test`. If you want to install all optional dependencies, you can use "all" instead. ([\#4298](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4298), [\#4325](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4325), [\#4327](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4327))
- Add routes for reading account data. ([\#4303](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4303))
- Add opt-in support for v2 rooms ([\#4307](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4307))
- Add a script to generate a clean config file ([\#4315](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4315))
- Return server data in /login response ([\#4319](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4319))


Bugfixes
--------

- Fix contains_url check to be consistent with other instances in code-base and check that value is an instance of string. ([\#3405](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3405))
- Fix CAS login when username is not valid in an MXID ([\#4264](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4264))
- Send CORS headers for /media/config ([\#4279](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4279))
- Add 'sandbox' to CSP for media reprository ([\#4284](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4284))
- Make the new landing page prettier. ([\#4294](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4294))
- Fix deleting E2E room keys when using old SQLite versions. ([\#4295](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4295))
- The metric synapse_admin_mau:current previously did not update when config.mau_stats_only was set to True ([\#4305](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4305))
- Fixed per-room account data filters ([\#4309](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4309))
- Fix indentation in default config ([\#4313](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4313))
- Fix synapse:latest docker upload ([\#4316](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4316))
- Fix test_metric.py compatibility with prometheus_client 0.5. Contributed by Maarten de Vries <maarten@de-vri.es>. ([\#4317](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4317))
- Avoid packaging _trial_temp directory in -py3 debian packages ([\#4326](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4326))
- Check jinja version for consent resource ([\#4327](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4327))
- fix NPE in /messages by checking if all events were filtered out ([\#4330](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4330))
- Fix `python -m synapse.config` on Python 3. ([\#4356](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4356))


Deprecations and Removals
-------------------------

- Remove the deprecated v1/register API on Python 2. It was never ported to Python 3. ([\#4334](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4334))


Internal Changes
----------------

- Getting URL previews of IP addresses no longer fails on Python 3. ([\#4215](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4215))
- drop undocumented dependency on dateutil ([\#4266](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4266))
- Update the example systemd config to use a virtualenv ([\#4273](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4273))
- Update link to kernel DCO guide ([\#4274](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4274))
- Make isort tox check print diff when it fails ([\#4283](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4283))
- Log room_id in Unknown room errors ([\#4297](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4297))
- Documentation improvements for coturn setup. Contributed by Krithin Sitaram. ([\#4333](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4333))
- Update pull request template to use absolute links ([\#4341](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4341))
- Update README to not lie about required restart when updating TLS certificates ([\#4343](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4343))
- Update debian packaging for compatibility with transitional package ([\#4349](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4349))
- Fix command hint to generate a config file when trying to start without a config file ([\#4353](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4353))
- Add better logging for unexpected errors while sending transactions ([\#4358](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4358))


Synapse 0.34.0 (2018-12-20)
===========================

Synapse 0.34.0 is the first release to fully support Python 3. Synapse will now
run on Python versions 3.5 or 3.6 (as well as 2.7). Support for Python 3.7
remains experimental.

We recommend upgrading to Python 3, but make sure to read the [upgrade
notes](UPGRADE.rst#upgrading-to-v0340) when doing so.

Features
--------

- Add 'sandbox' to CSP for media reprository ([\#4284](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4284))
- Make the new landing page prettier. ([\#4294](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4294))
- Fix deleting E2E room keys when using old SQLite versions. ([\#4295](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4295))
- Add a welcome page for the client API port. Credit to @krombel! ([\#4289](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4289))
- Remove Matrix console from the default distribution ([\#4290](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4290))
- Add option to track MAU stats (but not limit people) ([\#3830](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3830))
- Add an option to enable recording IPs for appservice users ([\#3831](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3831))
- Rename login type `m.login.cas` to `m.login.sso` ([\#4220](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4220))
- Add an option to disable search for homeservers that may not be interested in it. ([\#4230](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4230))


Bugfixes
--------

- Pushrules can now again be made with non-ASCII rule IDs. ([\#4165](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4165))
- The media repository now no longer fails to decode UTF-8 filenames when downloading remote media. ([\#4176](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4176))
- URL previews now correctly decode non-UTF-8 text if the header contains a `<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"` header. ([\#4183](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4183))
- Fix an issue where public consent URLs had two slashes. ([\#4192](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4192))
- Fallback auth now accepts the session parameter on Python 3. ([\#4197](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4197))
- Remove riot.im from the list of trusted Identity Servers in the default configuration ([\#4207](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4207))
- fix start up failure when mau_limit_reserved_threepids set and db is postgres ([\#4211](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4211))
- Fix auto join failures for servers that require user consent ([\#4223](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4223))
- Fix exception caused by non-ascii event IDs ([\#4241](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4241))
- Pushers can now be unsubscribed from on Python 3. ([\#4250](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4250))
- Fix UnicodeDecodeError when postgres is configured to give non-English errors ([\#4253](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4253))


Internal Changes
----------------

- Debian packages utilising a virtualenv with bundled dependencies can now be built. ([\#4212](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4212))
- Disable pager when running git-show in CI ([\#4291](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4291))
- A coveragerc file has been added. ([\#4180](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4180))
- Add a GitHub pull request template and add multiple issue templates ([\#4182](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4182))
- Update README to reflect the fact that [\#1491](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/1491) is fixed ([\#4188](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4188))
- Run the AS senders as background processes to fix warnings ([\#4189](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4189))
- Add some diagnostics to the tests to detect logcontext problems ([\#4190](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4190))
- Add missing `jpeg` package prerequisite for OpenBSD in README. ([\#4193](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4193))
- Add a note saying you need to manually reclaim disk space after using the Purge History API ([\#4200](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4200))
- More logcontext checking in unittests ([\#4205](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4205))
- Ignore `__pycache__` directories in the database schema folder ([\#4214](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4214))
- Add note to UPGRADE.rst about removing riot.im from list of trusted identity servers ([\#4224](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4224))
- Added automated coverage reporting to CI. ([\#4225](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4225))
- Garbage-collect after each unit test to fix logcontext leaks ([\#4227](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4227))
- add more detail to logging regarding "More than one row matched" error ([\#4234](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4234))
- Drop sent_transactions table ([\#4244](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4244))
- Add a basic .editorconfig ([\#4257](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4257))
- Update README.rst and UPGRADE.rst for Python 3. ([\#4260](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4260))
- Remove obsolete `verbose` and `log_file` settings from `homeserver.yaml` for Docker image. ([\#4261](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4261))


Synapse 0.33.9 (2018-11-19)
===========================

No significant changes.


Synapse 0.33.9rc1 (2018-11-14)
==============================

Features
--------

- Include flags to optionally add `m.login.terms` to the registration flow when consent tracking is enabled. ([\#4004](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4004), [\#4133](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4133), [\#4142](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4142), [\#4184](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4184))
- Support for replacing rooms with new ones ([\#4091](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4091), [\#4099](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4099), [\#4100](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4100), [\#4101](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4101))


Bugfixes
--------

- Fix exceptions when using the email mailer on Python 3. ([\#4095](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4095))
- Fix e2e key backup with more than 9 backup versions ([\#4113](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4113))
- Searches that request profile info now no longer fail with a 500. ([\#4122](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4122))
- fix return code of empty key backups ([\#4123](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4123))
- If the typing stream ID goes backwards (as on a worker when the master restarts), the worker's typing handler will no longer erroneously report rooms containing new typing events. ([\#4127](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4127))
- Fix table lock of device_lists_remote_cache which could freeze the application ([\#4132](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4132))
- Fix exception when using state res v2 algorithm ([\#4135](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4135))
- Generating the user consent URI no longer fails on Python 3. ([\#4140](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4140), [\#4163](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4163))
- Loading URL previews from the DB cache on Postgres will no longer cause Unicode type errors when responding to the request, and URL previews will no longer fail if the remote server returns a Content-Type header with the chartype in quotes. ([\#4157](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4157))
- The hash_password script now works on Python 3. ([\#4161](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4161))
- Fix noop checks when updating device keys, reducing spurious device list update notifications. ([\#4164](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4164))


Deprecations and Removals
-------------------------

- The disused and un-specced identicon generator has been removed. ([\#4106](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4106))
- The obsolete and non-functional /pull federation endpoint has been removed. ([\#4118](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4118))
- The deprecated v1 key exchange endpoints have been removed. ([\#4119](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4119))
- Synapse will no longer fetch keys using the fallback deprecated v1 key exchange method and will now always use v2. ([\#4120](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4120))


Internal Changes
----------------

- Fix build of Docker image with docker-compose ([\#3778](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3778))
- Delete unreferenced state groups during history purge ([\#4006](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4006))
- The "Received rdata" log messages on workers is now logged at DEBUG, not INFO. ([\#4108](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4108))
- Reduce replication traffic for device lists ([\#4109](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4109))
- Fix `synapse_replication_tcp_protocol_*_commands` metric label to be full command name, rather than just the first character ([\#4110](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4110))
- Log some bits about room creation ([\#4121](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4121))
- Fix `tox` failure on old systems ([\#4124](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4124))
- Add STATE_V2_TEST room version ([\#4128](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4128))
- Clean up event accesses and tests ([\#4137](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4137))
- The default logging config will now set an explicit log file encoding of UTF-8. ([\#4138](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4138))
- Add helpers functions for getting prev and auth events of an event ([\#4139](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4139))
- Add some tests for the HTTP pusher. ([\#4149](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4149))
- add purge_history.sh and purge_remote_media.sh scripts to contrib/ ([\#4155](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4155))
- HTTP tests have been refactored to contain less boilerplate. ([\#4156](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4156))
- Drop incoming events from federation for unknown rooms ([\#4165](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4165))


Synapse 0.33.8 (2018-11-01)
===========================

No significant changes.


Synapse 0.33.8rc2 (2018-10-31)
==============================

Bugfixes
--------

- Searches that request profile info now no longer fail with a 500. Fixes
  a regression in 0.33.8rc1. ([\#4122](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4122))


Synapse 0.33.8rc1 (2018-10-29)
==============================

Features
--------

- Servers with auto-join rooms will now automatically create those rooms when the first user registers ([\#3975](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3975))
- Add config option to control alias creation ([\#4051](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4051))
- The register_new_matrix_user script is now ported to Python 3. ([\#4085](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4085))
- Configure Docker image to listen on both ipv4 and ipv6. ([\#4089](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4089))


Bugfixes
--------

- Fix HTTP error response codes for federated group requests. ([\#3969](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3969))
- Fix issue where Python 3 users couldn't paginate /publicRooms ([\#4046](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4046))
- Fix URL previewing to work in Python 3.7 ([\#4050](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4050))
- synctl will use the right python executable to run worker processes ([\#4057](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4057))
- Manhole now works again on Python 3, instead of failing with a "couldn't match all kex parts" when connecting. ([\#4060](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4060), [\#4067](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4067))
- Fix some metrics being racy and causing exceptions when polled by Prometheus. ([\#4061](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4061))
- Fix bug which prevented email notifications from being sent unless an absolute path was given for `email_templates`. ([\#4068](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4068))
- Correctly account for cpu usage by background threads ([\#4074](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4074))
- Fix race condition where config defined reserved users were not being added to
  the monthly active user list prior to the homeserver reactor firing up ([\#4081](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4081))
- Fix bug which prevented backslashes being used in event field filters ([\#4083](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4083))


Internal Changes
----------------

- Add information about the [matrix-docker-ansible-deploy](https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy) playbook ([\#3698](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3698))
- Add initial implementation of new state resolution algorithm ([\#3786](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3786))
- Reduce database load when fetching state groups ([\#4011](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4011))
- Various cleanups in the federation client code ([\#4031](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4031))
- Run the CircleCI builds in docker containers ([\#4041](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4041))
- Only colourise synctl output when attached to tty ([\#4049](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4049))
- Refactor room alias creation code ([\#4063](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4063))
- Make the Python scripts in the top-level scripts folders meet pep8 and pass flake8. ([\#4068](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4068))
- The README now contains example for the Caddy web server. Contributed by steamp0rt. ([\#4072](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4072))
- Add psutil as an explicit dependency ([\#4073](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4073))
- Clean up threading and logcontexts in pushers ([\#4075](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4075))
- Correctly manage logcontexts during startup to fix some "Unexpected logging context" warnings ([\#4076](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4076))
- Give some more things logcontexts ([\#4077](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4077))
- Clean up some bits of code which were flagged by the linter ([\#4082](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4082))


Synapse 0.33.7 (2018-10-18)
===========================

**Warning**: This release removes the example email notification templates from
`res/templates` (they are now internal to the python package). This should only
affect you if you (a) deploy your Synapse instance from a git checkout or a
github snapshot URL, and (b) have email notifications enabled.

If you have email notifications enabled, you should ensure that
`email.template_dir` is either configured to point at a directory where you
have installed customised templates, or leave it unset to use the default
templates.

Synapse 0.33.7rc2 (2018-10-17)
==============================

Features
--------

- Ship the example email templates as part of the package ([\#4052](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4052))

Bugfixes
--------

- Fix bug which made get_missing_events return too few events ([\#4045](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4045))


Synapse 0.33.7rc1 (2018-10-15)
==============================

Features
--------

- Add support for end-to-end key backup (MSC1687) ([\#4019](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4019))


Bugfixes
--------

- Fix bug in event persistence logic which caused 'NoneType is not iterable' ([\#3995](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3995))
- Fix exception in background metrics collection ([\#3996](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3996))
- Fix exception handling in fetching remote profiles ([\#3997](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3997))
- Fix handling of rejected threepid invites ([\#3999](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3999))
- Workers now start on Python 3. ([\#4027](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4027))
- Synapse now starts on Python 3.7. ([\#4033](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4033))


Internal Changes
----------------

- Log exceptions in looping calls ([\#4008](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4008))
- Optimisation for serving federation requests ([\#4017](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4017))
- Add metric to count number of non-empty sync responses ([\#4022](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4022))


Synapse 0.33.6 (2018-10-04)
===========================

Internal Changes
----------------

- Pin to prometheus_client<0.4 to avoid renaming all of our metrics ([\#4002](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/4002))


Synapse 0.33.6rc1 (2018-10-03)
==============================

Features
--------

- Adding the ability to change MAX_UPLOAD_SIZE for the docker container variables. ([\#3883](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3883))
- Report "python_version" in the phone home stats ([\#3894](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3894))
- Always LL ourselves if we're in a room ([\#3916](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3916))
- Include eventid in log lines when processing incoming federation transactions ([\#3959](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3959))
- Remove spurious check which made 'localhost' servers not work ([\#3964](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3964))


Bugfixes
--------

- Fix problem when playing media from Chrome using direct URL (thanks @remjey!) ([\#3578](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3578))
- support registering regular users non-interactively with register_new_matrix_user script ([\#3836](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3836))
- Fix broken invite email links for self hosted riots ([\#3868](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3868))
- Don't ratelimit autojoins ([\#3879](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3879))
- Fix 500 error when deleting unknown room alias ([\#3889](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3889))
- Fix some b'abcd' noise in logs and metrics ([\#3892](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3892), [\#3895](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3895))
- When we join a room, always try the server we used for the alias lookup first, to avoid unresponsive and out-of-date servers. ([\#3899](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3899))
- Fix incorrect server-name indication for outgoing federation requests ([\#3907](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3907))
- Fix adding client IPs to the database failing on Python 3. ([\#3908](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3908))
- Fix bug where things occaisonally were not being timed out correctly. ([\#3910](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3910))
- Fix bug where outbound federation would stop talking to some servers when using workers ([\#3914](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3914))
- Fix some instances of ExpiringCache not expiring cache items ([\#3932](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3932), [\#3980](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3980))
- Fix out-of-bounds error when LLing yourself ([\#3936](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3936))
- Sending server notices regarding user consent now works on Python 3. ([\#3938](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3938))
- Fix exceptions from metrics handler ([\#3956](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3956))
- Fix error message for events with m.room.create missing from auth_events ([\#3960](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3960))
- Fix errors due to concurrent monthly_active_user upserts ([\#3961](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3961))
- Fix exceptions when processing incoming events over federation ([\#3968](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3968))
- Replaced all occurences of e.message with str(e). Contributed by Schnuffle ([\#3970](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3970))
- Fix lazy loaded sync in the presence of rejected state events ([\#3986](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3986))
- Fix error when logging incomplete HTTP requests ([\#3990](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3990))


Internal Changes
----------------

- Unit tests can now be run under PostgreSQL in Docker using ``test_postgresql.sh``. ([\#3699](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3699))
- Speed up calculation of typing updates for replication ([\#3794](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3794))
- Remove documentation regarding installation on Cygwin, the use of WSL is recommended instead. ([\#3873](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3873))
- Fix typo in README, synaspse -> synapse ([\#3897](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3897))
- Increase the timeout when filling missing events in federation requests ([\#3903](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3903))
- Improve the logging when handling a federation transaction ([\#3904](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3904), [\#3966](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3966))
- Improve logging of outbound federation requests ([\#3906](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3906), [\#3909](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3909))
- Fix the docker image building on python 3 ([\#3911](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3911))
- Add a regression test for logging failed HTTP requests on Python 3. ([\#3912](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3912))
- Comments and interface cleanup for on_receive_pdu ([\#3924](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3924))
- Fix spurious exceptions when remote http client closes conncetion ([\#3925](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3925))
- Log exceptions thrown by background tasks ([\#3927](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3927))
- Add a cache to get_destination_retry_timings ([\#3933](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3933), [\#3991](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3991))
- Automate pushes to docker hub ([\#3946](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3946))
- Require attrs 16.0.0 or later ([\#3947](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3947))
- Fix incompatibility with python3 on alpine ([\#3948](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3948))
- Run the test suite on the oldest supported versions of our dependencies in CI. ([\#3952](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3952))
- CircleCI now only runs merged jobs on PRs, and commit jobs on develop, master, and release branches. ([\#3957](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3957))
- Fix docstrings and add tests for state store methods ([\#3958](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3958))
- fix docstring for FederationClient.get_state_for_room ([\#3963](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3963))
- Run notify_app_services as a bg process ([\#3965](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3965))
- Clarifications in FederationHandler ([\#3967](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3967))
- Further reduce the docker image size ([\#3972](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3972))
- Build py3 docker images for docker hub too ([\#3976](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3976))
- Updated the installation instructions to point to the matrix-synapse package on PyPI. ([\#3985](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3985))
- Disable USE_FROZEN_DICTS for unittests by default. ([\#3987](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3987))
- Remove unused Jenkins and development related files from the repo. ([\#3988](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3988))
- Improve stacktraces in certain exceptions in the logs ([\#3989](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3989))


Synapse 0.33.5.1 (2018-09-25)
=============================

Internal Changes
----------------

- Fix incompatibility with older Twisted version in tests. Thanks @OlegGirko! ([\#3940](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3940))


Synapse 0.33.5 (2018-09-24)
===========================

No significant changes.


Synapse 0.33.5rc1 (2018-09-17)
==============================

Features
--------

- Python 3.5 and 3.6 support is now in beta. ([\#3576](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3576))
- Implement `event_format` filter param in `/sync` ([\#3790](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3790))
- Add synapse_admin_mau:registered_reserved_users metric to expose number of real reaserved users ([\#3846](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3846))


Bugfixes
--------

- Remove connection ID for replication prometheus metrics, as it creates a large number of new series. ([\#3788](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3788))
- guest users should not be part of mau total ([\#3800](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3800))
- Bump dependency on pyopenssl 16.x, to avoid incompatibility with recent Twisted. ([\#3804](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3804))
- Fix existing room tags not coming down sync when joining a room ([\#3810](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3810))
- Fix jwt import check ([\#3824](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3824))
- fix VOIP crashes under Python 3 (#3821) ([\#3835](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3835))
- Fix manhole so that it works with latest openssh clients ([\#3841](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3841))
- Fix outbound requests occasionally wedging, which can result in federation breaking between servers. ([\#3845](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3845))
- Show heroes if room name/canonical alias has been deleted ([\#3851](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3851))
- Fix handling of redacted events from federation ([\#3859](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3859))
-  ([\#3874](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3874))
- Mitigate outbound federation randomly becoming wedged ([\#3875](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3875))


Internal Changes
----------------

- CircleCI tests now run on the potential merge of a PR. ([\#3704](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3704))
- http/ is now ported to Python 3. ([\#3771](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3771))
- Improve human readable error messages for threepid registration/account update ([\#3789](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3789))
- Make /sync slightly faster by avoiding needless copies ([\#3795](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3795))
- handlers/ is now ported to Python 3. ([\#3803](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3803))
- Limit the number of PDUs/EDUs per federation transaction ([\#3805](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3805))
- Only start postgres instance for postgres tests on Travis CI ([\#3806](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3806))
- tests/ is now ported to Python 3. ([\#3808](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3808))
- crypto/ is now ported to Python 3. ([\#3822](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3822))
- rest/ is now ported to Python 3. ([\#3823](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3823))
- add some logging for the keyring queue ([\#3826](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3826))
- speed up lazy loading by 2-3x ([\#3827](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3827))
- Improved Dockerfile to remove build requirements after building reducing the image size. ([\#3834](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3834))
- Disable lazy loading for incremental syncs for now ([\#3840](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3840))
- federation/ is now ported to Python 3. ([\#3847](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3847))
- Log when we retry outbound requests ([\#3853](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3853))
- Removed some excess logging messages. ([\#3855](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3855))
- Speed up purge history for rooms that have been previously purged ([\#3856](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3856))
- Refactor some HTTP timeout code. ([\#3857](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3857))
- Fix running merged builds on CircleCI ([\#3858](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3858))
- Fix typo in replication stream exception. ([\#3860](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3860))
- Add in flight real time metrics for Measure blocks ([\#3871](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3871))
- Disable buffering and automatic retrying in treq requests to prevent timeouts. ([\#3872](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3872))
- mention jemalloc in the README ([\#3877](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3877))
- Remove unmaintained "nuke-room-from-db.sh" script ([\#3888](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3888))


Synapse 0.33.4 (2018-09-07)
===========================

Internal Changes
----------------

- Unignore synctl in .dockerignore to fix docker builds ([\#3802](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3802))


Synapse 0.33.4rc2 (2018-09-06)
==============================

Pull in security fixes from v0.33.3.1


Synapse 0.33.3.1 (2018-09-06)
=============================

SECURITY FIXES
--------------

- Fix an issue where event signatures were not always correctly validated ([\#3796](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3796))
- Fix an issue where server_acls could be circumvented for incoming events ([\#3796](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3796))


Internal Changes
----------------

- Unignore synctl in .dockerignore to fix docker builds ([\#3802](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3802))


Synapse 0.33.4rc1 (2018-09-04)
==============================

Features
--------

- Support profile API endpoints on workers ([\#3659](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3659))
- Server notices for resource limit blocking ([\#3680](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3680))
- Allow guests to use /rooms/:roomId/event/:eventId ([\#3724](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3724))
- Add mau_trial_days config param, so that users only get counted as MAU after N days. ([\#3749](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3749))
- Require twisted 17.1 or later (fixes [#3741](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3741)). ([\#3751](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3751))


Bugfixes
--------

- Fix error collecting prometheus metrics when run on dedicated thread due to threading concurrency issues ([\#3722](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3722))
- Fix bug where we resent "limit exceeded" server notices repeatedly ([\#3747](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3747))
- Fix bug where we broke sync when using limit_usage_by_mau but hadn't configured server notices ([\#3753](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3753))
- Fix 'federation_domain_whitelist' such that an empty list correctly blocks all outbound federation traffic ([\#3754](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3754))
- Fix tagging of server notice rooms ([\#3755](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3755), [\#3756](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3756))
- Fix 'admin_uri' config variable and error parameter to be 'admin_contact' to match the spec. ([\#3758](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3758))
- Don't return non-LL-member state in incremental sync state blocks ([\#3760](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3760))
- Fix bug in sending presence over federation ([\#3768](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3768))
- Fix bug where preserved threepid user comes to sign up and server is mau blocked ([\#3777](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3777))

Internal Changes
----------------

- Removed the link to the unmaintained matrix-synapse-auto-deploy project from the readme. ([\#3378](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3378))
- Refactor state module to support multiple room versions ([\#3673](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3673))
- The synapse.storage module has been ported to Python 3. ([\#3725](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3725))
- Split the state_group_cache into member and non-member state events (and so speed up LL /sync) ([\#3726](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3726))
- Log failure to authenticate remote servers as warnings (without stack traces) ([\#3727](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3727))
- The CONTRIBUTING guidelines have been updated to mention our use of Markdown and that .misc files have content. ([\#3730](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3730))
- Reference the need for an HTTP replication port when using the federation_reader worker ([\#3734](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3734))
- Fix minor spelling error in federation client documentation. ([\#3735](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3735))
- Remove redundant state resolution function ([\#3737](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3737))
- The test suite now passes on PostgreSQL. ([\#3740](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3740))
- Fix MAU cache invalidation due to missing yield ([\#3746](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3746))
- Make sure that we close db connections opened during init ([\#3764](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3764))


Synapse 0.33.3 (2018-08-22)
===========================

Bugfixes
--------

- Fix bug introduced in v0.33.3rc1 which made the ToS give a 500 error ([\#3732](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3732))


Synapse 0.33.3rc2 (2018-08-21)
==============================

Bugfixes
--------

- Fix bug in v0.33.3rc1 which caused infinite loops and OOMs ([\#3723](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3723))


Synapse 0.33.3rc1 (2018-08-21)
==============================

Features
--------

- Add support for the SNI extension to federation TLS connections. Thanks to @vojeroen! ([\#3439](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3439))
- Add /_media/r0/config ([\#3184](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3184))
- speed up /members API and add `at` and `membership` params as per MSC1227 ([\#3568](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3568))
- implement `summary` block in /sync response as per MSC688 ([\#3574](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3574))
- Add lazy-loading support to /messages as per MSC1227 ([\#3589](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3589))
- Add ability to limit number of monthly active users on the server ([\#3633](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3633))
- Support more federation endpoints on workers ([\#3653](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3653))
- Basic support for room versioning ([\#3654](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3654))
- Ability to disable client/server Synapse via conf toggle ([\#3655](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3655))
- Ability to whitelist specific threepids against monthly active user limiting ([\#3662](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3662))
- Add some metrics for the appservice and federation event sending loops ([\#3664](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3664))
- Where server is disabled, block ability for locked out users to read new messages ([\#3670](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3670))
- set admin uri via config, to be used in error messages where the user should contact the administrator ([\#3687](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3687))
- Synapse's presence functionality can now be disabled with the "use_presence" configuration option. ([\#3694](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3694))
- For resource limit blocked users, prevent writing into rooms ([\#3708](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3708))


Bugfixes
--------

- Fix occasional glitches in the synapse_event_persisted_position metric ([\#3658](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3658))
- Fix bug on deleting 3pid when using identity servers that don't support unbind API ([\#3661](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3661))
- Make the tests pass on Twisted < 18.7.0 ([\#3676](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3676))
- Don’t ship recaptcha_ajax.js, use it directly from Google ([\#3677](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3677))
- Fixes test_reap_monthly_active_users so it passes under postgres ([\#3681](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3681))
- Fix mau blocking calulation bug on login ([\#3689](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3689))
- Fix missing yield in synapse.storage.monthly_active_users.initialise_reserved_users ([\#3692](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3692))
- Improve HTTP request logging to include all requests ([\#3700](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3700))
- Avoid timing out requests while we are streaming back the response ([\#3701](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3701))
- Support more federation endpoints on workers ([\#3705](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3705), [\#3713](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3713))
- Fix "Starting db txn 'get_all_updated_receipts' from sentinel context" warning ([\#3710](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3710))
- Fix bug where `state_cache` cache factor ignored environment variables ([\#3719](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3719))


Deprecations and Removals
-------------------------

- The Shared-Secret registration method of the legacy v1/register REST endpoint has been removed. For a replacement, please see [the admin/register API documentation](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/admin_api/register_api.rst). ([\#3703](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3703))


Internal Changes
----------------

- The test suite now can run under PostgreSQL. ([\#3423](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3423))
- Refactor HTTP replication endpoints to reduce code duplication ([\#3632](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3632))
- Tests now correctly execute on Python 3. ([\#3647](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3647))
- Sytests can now be run inside a Docker container. ([\#3660](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3660))
- Port over enough to Python 3 to allow the sytests to start. ([\#3668](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3668))
- Update docker base image from alpine 3.7 to 3.8. ([\#3669](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3669))
- Rename synapse.util.async to synapse.util.async_helpers to mitigate async becoming a keyword on Python 3.7. ([\#3678](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3678))
- Synapse's tests are now formatted with the black autoformatter. ([\#3679](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3679))
- Implemented a new testing base class to reduce test boilerplate. ([\#3684](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3684))
- Rename MAU prometheus metrics ([\#3690](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3690))
- add new error type ResourceLimit ([\#3707](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3707))
- Logcontexts for replication command handlers ([\#3709](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3709))
- Update admin register API documentation to reference a real user ID. ([\#3712](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3712))


Synapse 0.33.2 (2018-08-09)
===========================

No significant changes.


Synapse 0.33.2rc1 (2018-08-07)
==============================

Features
--------

- add support for the lazy_loaded_members filter as per MSC1227 ([\#2970](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/2970))
- add support for the include_redundant_members filter param as per MSC1227 ([\#3331](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3331))
- Add metrics to track resource usage by background processes ([\#3553](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3553), [\#3556](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3556), [\#3604](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3604), [\#3610](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3610))
- Add `code` label to `synapse_http_server_response_time_seconds` prometheus metric ([\#3554](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3554))
- Add support for client_reader to handle more APIs ([\#3555](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3555), [\#3597](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3597))
- make the /context API filter & lazy-load aware as per MSC1227 ([\#3567](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3567))
- Add ability to limit number of monthly active users on the server ([\#3630](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3630))
- When we fail to join a room over federation, pass the error code back to the client. ([\#3639](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3639))
- Add a new /admin/register API for non-interactively creating users. ([\#3415](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3415))


Bugfixes
--------

- Make /directory/list API return 404 for room not found instead of 400. Thanks to @fuzzmz! ([\#3620](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3620))
- Default inviter_display_name to mxid for email invites ([\#3391](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3391))
- Don't generate TURN credentials if no TURN config options are set ([\#3514](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3514))
- Correctly announce deleted devices over federation ([\#3520](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3520))
- Catch failures saving metrics captured by Measure, and instead log the faulty metrics information for further analysis. ([\#3548](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3548))
- Unicode passwords are now normalised before hashing, preventing the instance where two different devices or browsers might send a different UTF-8 sequence for the password. ([\#3569](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3569))
- Fix potential stack overflow and deadlock under heavy load ([\#3570](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3570))
- Respond with M_NOT_FOUND when profiles are not found locally or over federation. Fixes #3585 ([\#3585](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3585))
- Fix failure to persist events over federation under load ([\#3601](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3601))
- Fix updating of cached remote profiles ([\#3605](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3605))
- Fix 'tuple index out of range' error ([\#3607](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3607))
- Only import secrets when available (fix for py < 3.6) ([\#3626](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3626))


Internal Changes
----------------

- Remove redundant checks on who_forgot_in_room ([\#3350](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3350))
- Remove unnecessary event re-signing hacks ([\#3367](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3367))
- Rewrite cache list decorator ([\#3384](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3384))
- Move v1-only REST APIs into their own module. ([\#3460](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3460))
- Replace more instances of Python 2-only iteritems and itervalues uses. ([\#3562](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3562))
- Refactor EventContext to accept state during init ([\#3577](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3577))
- Improve Dockerfile and docker-compose instructions ([\#3543](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3543))
- Release notes are now in the Markdown format. ([\#3552](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3552))
- add config for pep8 ([\#3559](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3559))
- Merge Linearizer and Limiter ([\#3571](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3571), [\#3572](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3572))
- Lazily load state on master process when using workers to reduce DB consumption ([\#3579](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3579), [\#3581](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3581), [\#3582](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3582), [\#3584](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3584))
- Fixes and optimisations for resolve_state_groups ([\#3586](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3586))
- Improve logging for exceptions when handling PDUs ([\#3587](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3587))
- Add some measure blocks to persist_events ([\#3590](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3590))
- Fix some random logcontext leaks. ([\#3591](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3591), [\#3606](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3606))
- Speed up calculating state deltas in persist_event loop ([\#3592](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3592))
- Attempt to reduce amount of state pulled out of DB during persist_events ([\#3595](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3595))
- Fix a documentation typo in on_make_leave_request ([\#3609](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3609))
- Make EventStore inherit from EventFederationStore ([\#3612](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3612))
- Remove some redundant joins on event_edges.room_id ([\#3613](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3613))
- Stop populating events.content ([\#3614](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3614))
- Update the /send_leave path registration to use event_id rather than a transaction ID. ([\#3616](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3616))
- Refactor FederationHandler to move DB writes into separate functions ([\#3621](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3621))
- Remove unused field "pdu_failures" from transactions. ([\#3628](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3628))
- rename replication_layer to federation_client ([\#3634](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3634))
- Factor out exception handling in federation_client ([\#3638](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3638))
- Refactor location of docker build script. ([\#3644](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3644))
- Update CONTRIBUTING to mention newsfragments. ([\#3645](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3645))


Synapse 0.33.1 (2018-08-02)
===========================

SECURITY FIXES
--------------

- Fix a potential issue where servers could request events for rooms they have not joined. ([\#3641](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3641))
- Fix a potential issue where users could see events in private rooms before they joined. ([\#3642](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3642))

Synapse 0.33.0 (2018-07-19)
===========================

Bugfixes
--------

-   Disable a noisy warning about logcontexts. ([\#3561](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3561))

Synapse 0.33.0rc1 (2018-07-18)
==============================

Features
--------

-   Enforce the specified API for report\_event. ([\#3316](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3316))
-   Include CPU time from database threads in request/block metrics. ([\#3496](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3496), [\#3501](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3501))
-   Add CPU metrics for \_fetch\_event\_list. ([\#3497](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3497))
-   Optimisation to make handling incoming federation requests more efficient. ([\#3541](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3541))

Bugfixes
--------

-   Fix a significant performance regression in /sync. ([\#3505](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3505), [\#3521](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3521), [\#3530](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3530), [\#3544](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3544))
-   Use more portable syntax in our use of the attrs package, widening the supported versions. ([\#3498](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3498))
-   Fix queued federation requests being processed in the wrong order. ([\#3533](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3533))
-   Ensure that erasure requests are correctly honoured for publicly accessible rooms when accessed over federation. ([\#3546](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3546))

Misc
----

-   Refactoring to improve testability. ([\#3351](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3351), [\#3499](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3499))
-   Use `isort` to sort imports. ([\#3463](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3463), [\#3464](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3464), [\#3540](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3540))
-   Use parse and asserts from http.servlet. ([\#3534](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3534), [\#3535](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3535)).

Synapse 0.32.2 (2018-07-07)
===========================

Bugfixes
--------

-   Amend the Python dependencies to depend on attrs from PyPI, not attr ([\#3492](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3492))

Synapse 0.32.1 (2018-07-06)
===========================

Bugfixes
--------

-   Add explicit dependency on netaddr ([\#3488](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3488))

Changes in synapse v0.32.0 (2018-07-06)
=======================================

No changes since 0.32.0rc1

Synapse 0.32.0rc1 (2018-07-05)
==============================

Features
--------

-   Add blacklist & whitelist of servers allowed to send events to a room via `m.room.server_acl` event.
-   Cache factor override system for specific caches ([\#3334](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3334))
-   Add metrics to track appservice transactions ([\#3344](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3344))
-   Try to log more helpful info when a sig verification fails ([\#3372](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3372))
-   Synapse now uses the best performing JSON encoder/decoder according to your runtime (simplejson on CPython, stdlib json on PyPy). ([\#3462](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3462))
-   Add optional ip\_range\_whitelist param to AS registration files to lock AS IP access ([\#3465](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3465))
-   Reject invalid server names in federation requests ([\#3480](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3480))
-   Reject invalid server names in homeserver.yaml ([\#3483](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3483))

Bugfixes
--------

-   Strip access\_token from outgoing requests ([\#3327](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3327))
-   Redact AS tokens in logs ([\#3349](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3349))
-   Fix federation backfill from SQLite servers ([\#3355](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3355))
-   Fix event-purge-by-ts admin API ([\#3363](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3363))
-   Fix event filtering in get\_missing\_events handler ([\#3371](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3371))
-   Synapse is now stricter regarding accepting events which it cannot retrieve the prev\_events for. ([\#3456](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3456))
-   Fix bug where synapse would explode when receiving unicode in HTTP User-Agent header ([\#3470](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3470))
-   Invalidate cache on correct thread to avoid race ([\#3473](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3473))

Improved Documentation
----------------------

-   `doc/postgres.rst`: fix display of the last command block. Thanks to @ArchangeGabriel! ([\#3340](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3340))

Deprecations and Removals
-------------------------

-   Remove was\_forgotten\_at ([\#3324](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/3324))